Elite Secret Service Detail Involved in Another Sex Scandal

Just
over a year after the Secret Service was engulfed by a "hooker and blow" scandal, two of its agents have been removed from President Obama's security detail following an investigation into their alleged
sexual misconduct.

The
investigation was prompted by an incident last May at the Hay-Adams
hotel in Washington DC. According to the Washington Post, Ignacio
Zamora Jr., a senior supervisor in charge of more than 20 agents in
the president's security detail, met a woman in the hotel's
appropriately named Off the Record bar. The two went back to her
room, where—for reasons that aren't clear—Zamora removed a single
bullet from the chamber of his service weapon. Later that night, the
agent realized he'd left behind the bullet and allegedly tried to
force his way into the woman's room, even going so far as to request
that hotel security let him in when the woman refused.

Once notified of the incident, the Secret Service launched an
internal investigation into Zamora. In the process of that
investigation, the agency searched Zamora's phone, discovering
several sexually explicit messages to a female Secret Service agent,
a subordinate. As the investigation grew, the agency learned that a
second supervisor, Timothy Barraclough, also sent the female agent
sexually suggestive emails.

The agency removed Zamora from his position, and Barraclough was moved to a detail
in another division.

"We have always maintained that the Secret Service has a professional and dedicated workforce," Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said in a statement. "Periodically we have isolated incidents of misconduct, just like every organization does."

Last
April, 12 Secret Service agents on President Obama's security detail were relieved from duty after
participating in what was described as the "biggest scandal in
Secret Service history": a cocaine-fueled sex party with prostitutes in a Colombian hotel.